All in Autumn Issue 2019
Emily Skye is an absolute force. Business entrepreneur, mother, and an all-around filmmaker (Screenwriter/Director/Producer). Despite the different time-zones and hectic schedules, we managed to chat about motherhood, filmmaking, inspiration and balance.
F: What is your background?
G: I moved to London to study at University of the Arts as I wanted to be a painter or sculptor. When some of my sculptures became installations on the body, it was suggested to me to research costume degrees. My Nanny was a machinist in 1960s & 70s making sheepskin coats, famously worn by Del Boy in Only Fools & Horses, so I’ve always been encouraged to sew. With the current economical climate we are in, I pursued a degree where I could learn a skill. So my actual degree is in Costume Making. Realising I loved styling and design too, I started doing some work experience on the side with stylists and assisting costume designers in the industry.
With the Brexit deadline extended, we are finally approaching the official Brexit Day on October 31, 2019. With a “soft” or “hard”, a no-deal or no Brexit at all very much still on the table, all scenarios pose detrimental effects on the UK as a whole, including women in the film and television industry.
It was a perfect spring afternoon when I met Antony Penrose (son of Lee Miller) at Farley’s House in Sussex. A luscious farmhouse surrounded by greenery and pastures and just such an idyllic setting. I could have easily closed my eyes and picture myself hobnobbing with artists, thinkers, and writers during those ever-lasting evenings. We started drinking tea and settling in the very same kitchen, where Lee would cook green chicken, blue spaghetti and purple cauliflowers.
Stress! Stress! Stress! How many of us wake up each morning to an alarm, swig down some black coffee, rush out the door, grab food on the run, fly into a meeting, rush back out, text someone, call someone, hire a new nanny, speed to our kids school play, grab a chocolate bar for energy, take work home, drink caffeine to keep going, meet deadlines, go to bed late, get up early....Rush. Rush. Rush.
Last year we witnessed an unprecedented shift in the relationship between genders. As the waves of the #MeToo movement started to break, one question kept cresting: “What should men be doing differently now?”
Drunk Women Solving Crime is a true crime podcast with a twist… of lime. It’s the drunken lovechild of writer and comedian Catie Wilkins, screenwriter Hannah George, comic and writer Taylor Glenn, and producer Amanda Redman, which features a different guest every week who reveals a crime that has been committed against them. Catie, Hannah and Taylor take it in turns to host the podcast and guide the others through a true crime, which they try to solve… whilst feeling the joyous effects of a G+T.
